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giovedì 11 settembre 2014

Benigni may star in Ballaro' season opener

New host Giannini up against predecessor Floris, on LA7

(ANSA)
- Rome, September 7 - The new season opener of Ballaro' talk show may
well star Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni, sources close to the director
said Wednesday. The sides are said to be in the process of working
out a deal for the multi-award-winning actor, comedian, screenwriter
and director to appear in an interview format at the heart of the one
and a half hour program. If confirmed, this would be a coup for new
host Massimo Giannini, who replaces Giovanni Floris on the
long-running weekly talk show that has been on air on public
broadcaster RAI 3 since 2002.

Floris
quit after 12 years at the helm of the successful show, "defecting"
to private channel LA7, which reportedly more than doubled his
three-year RAI salary of 1.8 million euros. His new show Dimartedi'
debuts on the same night in the same slot as Giannini's Ballaro', on
Tuesday September 16.